New England Distribution

Non-native: introduced
(intentionally or
unintentionally); has become naturalized.

County documented: documented
to exist in the county by
evidence (herbarium specimen, photograph). Also covers
those considered historical (not seen in 20 years).

State documented: never been
documented from the
county, but known from the state. May be present. Or,
may be restricted to a small area or a habitat (alpine,
marsh, etc.), so unlikely found in some
counties.

Note: when native and non-native
populations both exist in a county, only native status
is shown on the map.

Native to North America?

Sometimes Confused With

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Information from Dichotomous Key of Flora Novae Angliae

30. Salix viminalis
L. E

osier willow.
CT, MA, ME,
NH,
RI,
VT. River banks, near dwellings.

Salix babylonica
L. ×Salix euxina
I.V. Belyaeva.
Salix×‌pendulina
Wenderoth is an uncommon willow hybrid in New England known from
CT, MA, ME. It is very similar to 1a
×S. babylonica (
S. ×sepulcralis), especially in its pendulous branches and branchlets, but has green-brown (or less frequently yellow-brown, gray-brown, or red-brown) branchlets rather than gold-yellow (or less frequently green-yellow) branchlets.

8×30.
Salix caprea
×
Salix viminalis
→Salix×‌sericans
Tausch
ex
Kern. is a rare willow hybrid in New England known from
MA, ME. It is sometimes referred to by the name
S. ×‌smithiana Willd. (9
×30), but that name properly refers to the hybrid betweenS. cinerea and
S. viminalis (a hybrid that has not been documented in New England). It has lanceolate to broad-lanceolate leaf blades that are mostly 13–30 mm wide (vs. oblong to suborbicular and 25–80 mm wide in
S. caprea and narrow-lanceolate to narrow-elliptic and 5–15 (–25) mm wide in
S. viminalis). This hybrid is further characterized by dense gray tomentum on the abaxial blade surface, precocious flowering, and dark floral bracts that are densely pubescent.